Category Archives: Culture

Encounters With Ex-Boyfriends

27th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
Meg and I were talking in the car today about meeting ex-boyfriends. We were talking about how unexpected meetings with ex-boyfriends become ways to measure oneself against the passing of time and against former selves, the ones we embodied when we were with _____ . Ways of seeing how much the person we remember [...]
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Of Two Worlds: A Mexican-American Wedding

13th
Apr. × ’10
By Sarah
Susy and I have always shared issues of otherness, but mine are intellectual flirtations, mazes explored intentionally with the constant possibility of escape, whereas hers have been deeply instilled and inescapable since childhood.  Susy is Mexican-American, and has spent her life split between the two countries; speaking Spanish and English, eating menudo in Nogales and [...]
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On The Road, Mexican-Style

20th
Mar. × ’10
By Sarah
This past weekend we went to the beach for the wedding of two of our best friends.  The five of us – Natalie, August, a friend of theirs from Vancouver, Jorge and I – drove a massive van full of dogs and alcohol on a long winding road through the mountains to the coast, playing [...]
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Art World

2nd
Mar. × ’10
By Sarah
Mexican artists come to Oaxaca to idle, pontificate and get lavishly drunk.  Admirers gather around them in obsequious eddies, asking hopeful questions to which the artists respond with one of two postures : an arm thrown around the asker’s shoulder in mock commiseration, or a flippant dismissal via shrug.  The artists opine in grand swoops [...]
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